What's a bigger lie than the old lie that two people can live as cheaply
as one?

The deregulator's promise that three people can live cheaper than one.

Consider the following:

With electrical deregulation, the deregulators said producers can make more
and the consumers can pay less while the deregulation bureaucrats make more
money than any executive in the electrical industry. (see below).

With healthcare deregulation aka HMOs, the promise was that health care would
cost less if we replace

the costs of providers, medicine and facilities with

the costs of providers, medicine, facilities, junk bonds and new HMO
bureaucrats earning more money than any doctor.

With mortgage deregulation in which regulated banks sold subprime loans to
unregulated "loan binders" thus eliminated bank long-term interest in loan
quality and loan binders marketing the SIVs (subprime investment vehicles)
as AAA investments, both borrowers and investers were misled by the greedy,
unregulated middlemen who
fudged the
figures.

Hello. What kind of new math is this? Habitual politician math. Economists'
something-for-nothing math. Campaign welfare math. Politicians rewarding
campaign funders with something for nothing. Since someone cannot get something
for nothing, who is the someone that has to give up the something. That someone
is the average person.

While you can't sue a bankrupt electrical utiilty for failure to fulfill
promises, the politicians have outlawed your suing an HMO. But, like the
electrical deregulation, a law against suing will not matter as the healthcare
industry goes bankrupt.